Wacom 6D Art Pen introduction

Wacom 6D Art Pen introduction : Wacom, with the support of Corel, has developed a 6D Art Pen that gives artists and designers six dimensions of pen control in Corel Painter IX. The 6D Art Pen is supported on Wacom's Intuos3 pen tablets and new Wacom Cintiq 21UX interactive pen display. The pen has a suggested retail price of $69.95. The Wacom 6D Art Pen builds on Wacom's patented cordless, battery-free technology to offer artists and designers six dimensions of creative control: X-axis (left and right), Y-axis (up and down), Pressure (force with which pen is applied to tablet), Tilt (angle at which pen is tilted), Bearing (direction in which pen is tilted) and Barrel Rotation (orientation of the pen around its long axis).

Wacom 6D Art Pen - Intuitive
"Artists and designers will appreciate the intuitive nature of the Wacom 6D Art Pen and its ability to easily control brush attributes with barrel rotation," said Mark Mehall, Senior Product Manager with Wacom Technology. "The 6th dimension of control provides a natural media ex- perience in the digital environment." New Software Provides Artistic Control Corel worked closely with Wacom throughout the development of its Art Pen technology to create the Corel Painter IX Art Pen Brush Pack, a collection of 5 brushes that enhance the digital art experience.

Wacom 6D Art Pen - Precision and Design
"Never has technology so faithfully captured the traditional art experience," said Sean Young, Product Manager for Corel Painter IX. "The combination of the Wacom 6D Art Pen with the new lifelike brushes in Painter IX enables artists to transcend the digital divide and explore a brave new world of creative freedom." Some of the leading software applications specifically designed to benefit from use with the 6D Art Pen are: Studio Artist by Synthetk, Body Paint by Maxon, and Studio and Symbolic Sound by Kyma. More graphics and design software companies intend to support the Wacom 6D Art Pen in the near future.

Wacom 6D Art Pen - Expert's opinions
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Painter instructor and best-selling author The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book and Painter IX Wow Book! ("My traditional brushes respond to pressure, and how I tilt the brush and rotate my hand while I’m painting. I never expected to be able to enjoy this same kind of control in my digital work. I’m stunned. With Painter IX and the new Wacom 6D Art Pen, I’m in digital painting heaven.") John Dalton, President, Synthetk Software and creator of Studio Artist ("We’ve added extensive support for the new capabilities of the Wacom 6D Art Pen to our Studio Artist Paint Synthesizer. Pen rotation adds a new dimension of interactive control that is very intuitive for users to understand and operate. The Wacom 6D Art Pen is the most exciting new development in interactive control for computer generated art to appear in the last 10 years.")